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IVER : PRESS.
Vo1l..' Fort Benton, Montana, Wedni day, July 13, 1881. No. 38,
Benton Lodge, No. 25, A. P. & A. M.
Regular Communications of the above named Lodge
are held at 7 p. m. on the first and third Saturday of
each month. Members of sister lodges and sojourn
ng brethren are cordially in ed to attend.
RUFUS PAYNE, W. M.
Ti. P. ROLFE, Secretary.
Choteau Lodge, No, 11, I, 0. 0. F.
A regular meeting of the above Lodge will be held
on Wednesday evening of each week, at their lodge
oom in this city. Sojourning brothers are cordially
invited to attend. JNO. F. MURPHY, N. G.
J. P. McCABE, Secretary.
-OF
NORTHERN MONTANA
Transact a General Banking
Business.
Keep current accounts with merchants, stock men
and others, subject to be drawn against by
checks without notice.
PAY INTEREST on TIME DEPOSITS
We buy and sell Exchange on the commercial center
of the United States.
WE WILL GIVE SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THEil
CUSI.ESS OF NORTIHERN AND CE)NTRAL
IiNT'ANA,
And will make such loans to stock men and farmers
as are suited to their requirements.
Loc-, Securities a Specialty,
Coillctions and all other business entrusted to us wil
receive prompt and careful attention.
COLL(INS, D:UER & CO.
Ric'ono BlutIDiNo. "FORT BENTON, M. T.
XLEik ETTL ` . ~. STEYE O
SETTLE & STEVENSON,
. ai au : insil at ,
BENTON, MONTANA.
WIll pracir: c in al! courts of the Territory. Collec
Si,»s; prom;; ly atTended to; also the securing of pat
cui and ipen:ions, in connection with a general
S:":lic in brk buiiing opplosite Court House.
JNO. W. TATTAN,
4Ti B r- 10fL2 AT l'J1
(liil e of the County Clerk,
iR i TO.)i , - - IMONTA- A.
J, A, KAOUSE,
Atorney and Counselor at Law,
SFOIT BTENTON, IrONTANA.
)i '1ARY PUBILIC ANT) JUSTICE of the IP'EACE,
Ma!in St., bet. Baker and St John,
,MAX. WATEIIMAN,
TATOLNEY AT LAW ,
FT. RENTOIIINI'OY4, IONTANA.
Wil practice in a.! the conrts of the Territory. Spe
cial attention g!veon to crimi!n l practice.
II, P, ROLPE,
ATTOPRNEY AT LAW.
(Associated with Sandcrs & Cnllen.)
U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyer.
Ten( vear't experience in government surveying. The
best instruments used. Collections, in-urance,
mining,, homestead and all land claims
attended to
OFFICE, NEAR WETZEL'S,
FRIONT ST., FORT JBEINTON.
JORN W. DEWEY,
Civil Engineer,
ARCHITECT
-AND
United States Dep,Dineral Surveyor
BENTON, MIONTANA.
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE
-AND
REAL ESTATE AGENOY.,
First-Class Companies, possessing assets of FOUR
TEEN MILLION DOLLARS.
Represented by H. P.ROLFE.I
M. E. 1MArYE,
Assayer,, .
BUTTE, - - M#TANA.
Offtice, West Park Street.
Spocial attention paid to "sealed samples" and all
kinds of gold, arid silver bullion,.
Samples sent from a distance promptly attended to
and returns made the following dsay,
Charges reasouable. :.
1NOTIUE.
I hereby warn all persons against tr~uting a.y .o,
no matter whom, on my abcbcount, withot aii ~rd.r
signed by ;. yself. ^ NALOItt VAMX.
MONTANA MATTERS.
News from all Parts of the Territory Gath
ered for the River Press Readers.
A dispatch from New York announces the
gratifying fact that Mr. Henry Villard and
several friends will start from there the first
week in July to make an excursion to St.
Paul and the Northern Pacific country. They
will visit the whole of the line east of the
Rocky Mountains. They will go from St.
Paul to Duluth, Fergus Falls, and Bismarck
and thence west to the end of the finished
section at the Yellowstone river. They will
then take wagons and go some distance fur
ther, inspecting the country. The party
leaving New York will number seven or
eight of the most wealthy and plucky men
who have backed up this new Napoleon of
railroads and enabled him to succeed in his
great aggressive enterprise. At Chicago
this will be reinforced by three or four
others, and take it all in all this will be one
of the richest and most influential parties
that ever visited the Northwest. Mr. Villard
has shown so much courage in this under
taking, and has been so successful, that his
reputation has risen suddenly in Wall street,
and his name is already spoken of with those
of Jay Gould and Vanderbilt.--Herald.
Montana finds an unusually full and accu
rate description at the hands of Col. W. F.
Wheeler in his recently prepared papers for
Monteith's Geography. The Colonel's work,
difficult and requiring the utmost persever
ance and research, has been accomplished
with great credit to himself. The geography
people have reason to congratulate them
selves in having secured so faithful a pen
portrait of Montana. Measured by its real
value in the field of school information and
instruction this supplement will rank high in
educational estimates here. The work can
hardly be improved in any particular.-Her
ald.
A distinguished party, consisting of Sena
tor Sherman, Judge Strong of the U. S. Su
preme Court, Hon. Amos Townsend,of Cleve
land, Ohio, Mr. Hoyt, of New York, and
Albert Bierstadt, the celebrated artist, will
soon pay a visit to Wonderland. They
leave Chicago on the 25th inst. and will pro
ceed via the Union Pacific and Utah North
ern railroads. Gov. Potts has been invited
to meet the party at Virginia City and he has
telegraphed his acceptance of the invitation.
The visit of this party to the National Park
can not but result advantageously for the
same. The government should take the
steps necessary to make the Park the popu
lar resort its varied and wonderful attrac
tions warrant. If the 'powers that be" at
Washington would take ya jaunt to Won
derland and spend a few weeks there it
would not be lng until everything needed
were done to render the Park the chiefest
attraction of the country. It is probable that
the party above mentioned, will visit the prin
cipal towns of the Territory, and it is to be
hoped they will not overlook the river me
tropolis.
The corner stone ol the new Episcopal
church at Butte was laid on Thursday of last
week, Bishop Brewer officiating.
A postoffice has been established at Ander
sonville, Meagher county, and Blnjamin
I)Dexter will sling the mail for the same. The
statement hIs been made that the people of
the Barker District would get their mail at
this point, but as the office is many miles dis
tant from the camp it is evident that this
can not be. The Barker District needs a
postoflice of its own and ought to have it
"speedily and without delay."
The sixth annual fair of the Western Mon
tana Fair Association will be held at Mis
soula, commencing on the 13th of Septem
ber and continuing for six days. Premiums
to the amount of $1,660 will be given by the
association.
The glorious and ever memorable day was
celebrated with great eclat in the various
cities and towns of the Territory. The peo
ple of Montana are patriotic if anything.
W. Y. Pemberton, Esq., an old Montanian
and a lawyer of celebrity in the early days of
the Territory, has returned to Heleha and
will again swing his shingle to the Montana
breezes at the capital.
General Gibbon, Delegate Maginnis and
Mayor Jacobs left St. Paul on the 5th inst,
for Montana and are expected at Helena on
the 13th.
It is reported that the negotiations with
the Crow Indians, for right of way of the
Northern Pacific Railroad over the reserve,
inaugurated by Co J. T. Dodge, has so far
progressed satisfactorily, the Indians mani
festinga most :conciliatory disposition and
.friendly spirit. The~ interview With the
Crow nation wa:held at Itheir camp near the
Big Horn, COl.~irce and Major Pease rep
resenting the railroad company and Major
Keller his ward~. Major Keller has returned
tthe ageency, Col. Pierce to Bozeman, and,
it is rumredajored ao Peiase 4h proceeded to
W hahigtonto lay the resultof the negotia1
tions :before the Iterior DIepartmnt.t
The oommissioners &f Meagher county are
slightly inclined to be parsimoiious. They
refused to go to the expense-of` having the
plans and specifications of the proposed new
court house published and th~ iHisbandmran,
with a commendable spiritf o nterprise, de
voted two or three columns to the same
"gratis for nothing." There is a difference
between economy and parsimony that the
said commissions do not seem':to clearly un
derstand.
Capt. Paul Boynton, the celebrated swim
mer, will soon visit the head waters of the
Big Muddy with the view bf:avigating the
same to its mouth.
Five thousand tourists are expected to vis
it the National Park this yea. Last season
not half that number took? in the sights of
Wonderland,
Col. Davidson, late commanding officer at
Fort Custer, died at St. Patl on the 27th of
June.
George B. Johnston, on&e the editors of
the Butte Miner and a we1-known Montani
an, died suddenly at his ro~s in Butte, on
the 2d inst.
The base ball match between the Helena
and Fort Snaw nines on t o_' urth resulted
in a "walk over" for the':boys of the me
tropolis.
The Butte Daily M2iner ow the largest
paper published in the Te.itory, having re
cently been enlarged from, 4. four-page to a
eight-page sheet to meet t:.. requirements of
the growing and enterprisi:g city of Butte.
The evidence is clear t .'.the Afincr has
reached a high plane of p~sperity and that
it deserves all the success it enjoys.
The Ogden Pilot of a reeent date gives
Montana the following send off, at the same
time:reflecting rather severel on the "civiliza
tion" of the Mormon Territ6ry. A few years
will prove that the Pilot i4a :true prophet in
what it says about Montana' :., "Montana, on
the strength of 50,000 peo.le and 500,000 in
the near prospective, has five flourishing
daily newspapers, with asmany others well
advanced from weekly to daily journalism.
It is a live Territory because it is filled with
people of energy and intelligence, in marked
contrast with the polygamous citizens of
Utah who are keeping bA.k the progress of
this Territory, which hai'greater natural ad
vantages than Montana. Our- northern neigh
bor will be a state iong before Utah will,
simply because of the difference in the char
actlr of thv;e *a.." i
Mr, Saoy Raunheim informs us that the
Montana Copper Company has just decided
to stop their shipments east by the Utah
Northern railroad on account of alleged high
rates charged by the Union PacificCompany.
We understand that the high rates of the
railroad company eat up most of the profits
made by the company's smelters at M:ead
erville. It is now the intention of the Cop
per Comparny to erect sheds and keep the
mniate and ore on band until the approach
ing Northern Pacific is near enough to per
mit the compary, next year, to send the Pc
cumulated rnatte, by teams, to the terminus
of the N. P. railway. The Copper Company
has made succh fina"cial arrangements as not
to be comielled to ship anything for a year
or get returns for that length of time. To
dive an idea of ihe amount of freight sent by
the Montana Copper Company we have as
certained th.t the company has shipped one
thousand three hundred tons of matte and
ore during the last six weeks.--3hiuer.
It is rumored that the Canadian Pacific
Railioad Company contemplates building a
branch road from Bow river to the Yellow
stone National Park. The road when built
will pass directly through Bozeman.--Cou·
ier.
On the Sh inst. a miner named E. B.
Keane, at work for the Moulton company,
at Butte, was struck by a falling piece of
granite, receiving fatalinjuries.
S. A. Kennicott, who killed Jesse Sanders
in a quarrel at Butte a few days since, was
discharged at the preliminary examination,
it being held by the court that the homicide
was justifiable.
Fort Keogh was visited by a disastrous
fire on the night of the 8th inst. The quar
ters occupied by companies F and G, 5th In
fantry, were totally destroyed and as a strong
gale blowing at the time iL required hard and
persistent work to save the post from total
destruction. The quarters destroyed were 200
feet in length.
TheJameson hunting party are in the Terri
tory again to indulge in the luxury of a griz
zly hunt. The party left Helena a few days
ago for the Judith to proceed thenice to the
Big Horn country where the royal game
they seek is supposed to abound. There are
two gentlemen new to the party this year,
viz: :l Mr. J. R. Fitzgerald, :a celebrated ti
ger hulnter of India snd who wears many a
trophy of the jungle at his belt; also Mr. D.
Watson Smythe, who has made many a lion
bite the dust in Africa. By the aid of these
additions the Jameson party ought to:be able
to maken a large grizzly catch this year.
IOver 1i300 gallons of hisky8i' consumed
.monthly at Miies City, o thei Yellowston&'
Silver Bow county~wil show an assessed
value of over. $5o ,000 for 1881.
THE NEWS OF THE WEE1.
We are pleased to be able to report that
the President is gradually but steadily im
proving and that his ultimate recovery is
now a thing nearly assured. We hope be
fore the next issue of our paper to be able to
herald the gratifying intelligence that the
President is entirely out of danger and on
the way to speedy recovery. This is the
heart felt wish of every good citizen in the
land.
Jeff Davis shows that he has a grain of
common sense left by writing a commenda
ble letter sympathizing with the President
and denouncing the deed of the assassin.
The District Attorney says that nothing
will be done in Guitteau's case until the re
sult of the President's wound is known.
Guitteau's papers, written by himself, only
contain a full and detailed1 history of the
crime from its inception. They wiil be made
public eventually. They are a true recital
I believe. I am beset by people, naturally
curious to know all about the facts. It is
proper to say that there are nothing start
ling in the papers. The assassination was
simply a cold-blooded attempt at murder by
a man who knew what he was doing, and
the consequence that would follow. There
is no doubt that he is rational and sane. I
will say in addition that I think it cruel, con
sidering the fevered state of the public mind
on this subject and the horror which every
man regards the assassin, that any man's
name should be mentioned in connection
with him. He is an egotistical, presuming
and dishonest man, attempting to borrow
of people and claiming the acquaintance of:
persons whom he only knew by the fact of
his going to them and speaking to them of
persons as his friends, with whom he had
no acquaintance at all; attempting to ob-
tain money by representing himself as a
man of great political influence, both here
and in New York. To mention the name
of citizens in connection with this man is
improper and unjust. While everybody
who has know-anything about this man at
all has been perfectly willing to detail to
me his entire relations with Guitteau, still
there is scarcely one of them but had re
quested his name to be kept from the pub
lic.
The Chamber of Commerce propose to
raise $250,000 to be invested in U. S. bonds
and the same donated to Mrs. Garfield and
at her death to go equally to her children, all
of which generosity is in appreciation of the
noble character of the President. To this
fund Jay Gould, S. B. Chittenden, C. P.
Huntington, D. Willis, James Dcxtrel, Mor
gan & Co., and Cyrus W. Field have sub
scribed $5,000 each and many others $1,000
each.
A fellow named Von Gottschak, of Provi
dence, R. I., a surgeon in the militia, made a
speech on the 41:h glorifying the assassin who
attempted the life of the President. The only
wonder is that the communistic cuss got
away with his life.
Conkling has sePnt numerous messages of
sympathy to Mrs. Garfield and members of
the President's cabinet.
Gladstone, the British Premier, takes oc
casion to deny that he ever attributed the at
tempt on Gaifield's life to a political con
spiracy, although such a statement was tele
graphed the press of this country.
A dispatch of the 7th states that the stage
coach from El Paso to Chihuahua was at
ta.cked by Indians who were concealed in the
sand holes,and fired as the coach approached.
The driver was killed, and Pugh-son of ex
Senator Pugh and son-in-law of ex-Governor
LHendricks of Indiana-was captured. The
passengers climbed out of the coach on the op
posite side and all escaped except Pugh, who
was last to leave and was captured while en
deavoring to get his pistol out of the coach.
The coach was burned, and a large amount
of Chihuahua money torn into fragments
was found on the ground.
Me Too Platt has withdrawn from the
Senatorial contest in New York, but Conk
ling still sticks.
The vote at Albany on the 9th stood as
follows: Short term-Potter, 50; Conkling,
31; Lapham, 67; Wheeler, 1. Second vote
Miller, 68; Keman, 50; Wheeler, 19; Adams,
3; Chapman, 2: Cornell, 1; Bliss, 1; Starin,
1; Rodgers, 4; No choice. The half breeds
are making gains.
Justice Clifford, of the U. S. Supreme
court, is dangerously ill at his home.
Cincinnati had a $675,000 fire on the 7th,
a number of factories being destroyed.
The largest and beat assorted stock of hats
in Benton at Gans & Klein's.
The only place where you can buy the cel
ebrated Buckeye mower and combined ma
chines is at Murphy,. Neel & Co.
:The stock of groceries, can goods, chande
iiers and drop lights are very complete at
Burugcs'-ew store. .
T.y'e. McCormick Imperia combined reap
ers and Inoersr for sale byiW. 8;Wetzel,
and- and . ws_ . .......
THE BARKIIER DISTRICrT.
What Mr. Welsh Thinks about the Fa.
mous Camp and its Prospects.
Mr. Nick Welsh is largely interested in the
Barker mines and he has faith like unto a
mountain in their richness as well as the fu
ture greatness of the camp. Mr. Welsh has
been operating at the mines nearly all sum
mer, and so thoroughly convinced is he of
their successful outcome that on Tuesday
morning he started for the camp with his
family and house hold effects, having already
erected a house for their reception.
On Monday Mr. W. dropped into the
RIVER PREss office and our reporter pro
ceeded to quiz him with a view of finding
out what is going on at Barker. Very
naturally our first question was something
like this :
"You have given the, mines of the Barker
District a pretty thorough examination, Mr.
Welsh, and what do you think of them ?"
"I think," said he, "that they are wonder
ful. The ore is inexhaustible, and that it is
very rich no one can deny. It seems to me
that Barker will be one of the greatest camps
in the Territory in due time."
"You have had considerable practical
mining experience, have you not ?"
"Well, I have been in this country twenty
one years and ought to know something
about a mine," was the answer.
"Is the camp pretty lively now ?"
"It is that, indeed. There are now about
two hundred men there and they are flocking
in every day, not only from Benton, but
from' Helena, Bozeman and various other
points.. Work is going on briskly and the
camp presents a lively appearance. The
smelter is now in course of erection and ev
erybody is encouraged. I understand that
Mr. Foss has twenty men at work and wants
forty more, but is not able to get them. The
claim owners are at work getting out ore and
many others are prospecting, so that itis not
an easy matter to get men to work for wages
there."
"What are the prospects of Gold Run, the
new town laid out near the smelter ?"
"It is building up rapidly, already. There
area large number of houses now going up
there, and it would seem that a town would
spring up at that point in short order. I have
a lead running through Gold Run and feel
some iiiterest in it."
After some further expressions of confi
dence in the outcome of the UBaker Distric)
Mr. Welsh took his departure to prepare for
his exodus to the same on the morrow.,
GOLD RUN,
Wich thle Salle is th~e 3e hifiuis Name
Stthke CoaiDE townI orf the I' er
District.
The Butte of the Barker District h4as been
laid otut, and its metes and bounds establish.
ed. That it is bound to be a town of swel
lingu importance there is not a miner in the
District that doubts for a moment. The new
town is situated on a beautifutl piat of bot
toms, at the junction of the Gold Run, Gale
,na and Dry Fork Creeks and in honor of
the former stream it has been christened and
baptised Gold Run, a name that is sweet
soddinding if nothing else. The location of
the smelter determined the site of Gold Run.
As soon as the location of the former wa.s
established a number of gentleman located
the town on the pleasantly situated flat adja
cent to the smelter, and they are now fondly
anticipating that another Butte will arise in
that immediate vicinity. The Riv a PREss
sincerely trusts that their fondest hopes in
the premises may be realized. About 80
acres have been staked off "for a starter"
and the same have now been laid out into lots,
together with the needed streets, alleys and
other etceteras of a rising young burg. Tim
ber is convenient for building purposes,
which, together with the many other advan
tages of: the town, fairly evidence the fact
that Gold Run will soon loom up. We are
informed by gentlemen recently from the
mines that houses are going up already at a
rapid rate and that the "boom" for the new
burg is not far off. Mr. James W. Matkins
has been elected Recorder. All moneys col
lected, apart from the fees of the latter offi
cer, will be devoted to maintaining the school
of the Barker district of Meagher county.
The RIVER PRESS wants to see the new town
grow up and flourish. We are not the least
bit jealous and don't propose to be even if it
could out-rival Butte in fact.
Seeking ta atistles.
Mr. T. J. Merrill;1of S~t. Paul, was in the
city a few days last week, looking up the
mining interests of Northern Montana in the
interest of the :Northern Pacific Railroad.
Mr. M's mission is to obtain reliable inform
ation from mine owners of the character of
their leads and other matters pertaining
thereto. While here he gathered all the in
formation there was to be had concerning
the Barker District, and made copious notes
in reference to the same. From Benton Mr.,
Merrill proceeded to elena to further pt
ascute is4 work.